#(that was a good localized name change)

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….

[witheredgardenparty]

I will never forgive a single one of you

[daily-hanamura]

[riddlerosehearts]

people are already saying they're afraid of what scully/skully/skelly's EN name will be but i honestly don't think they'll change his name just because they changed fellow and gidel... fellow's name change is pretty understandable imo but i see no reason why scully j. graves would need to be changed. i just want to know what the correct spelling of it is supposed to be 😭

[heshemejoshi]

more octo2 fanart where i draw a character doing absolutely nothing

[des-legacy]

Had a dream recently that they made another Angels in the Outfield movie (I have not seen this movie since early elementary, but apparently, I used to love it) but it was a messy dream so it was called as stylized as something like eggs . land.. and it had nothing to do with baseball I believe and also it sucked. I was so frustrated confused that I woke up. Owen Wilson was in it, he was my friend. I was also apparently in it.

[allisonreader]

My heart hurts. Not physically, but emotionally. I don't like the news, I tend to avoid actively searching it out, for that exact reason. I ache because as people we just can't seem to get along. Learn to compromise and fully try to understand the other side. It's exhausting to understand why people are against certain things, even when it's the opposite of what I personally believe in.

[devilofthepit]

nyx screamo era!!!?!? what bands👀

OMGGG thank u for asking hehehe <333 it started bc @destroyingangela and i wanna play music together and he sent me songs he plays on bass so i could learn them on guitar and there was a bunch of selfish machines era pierce the veil which got me back into them and other stuff i listened to in my emo phase like fall out boy lol BUT then i started listening to stuff from that era that i wasn’t that into during my emo phase like the used, thursday, hawthorne heights, circa survive, saosin, and chiodos :3 idk if any of that counts as screamo or if it’s more post hardcore but i looooove it!! if u have any more recs send them my way <333 music just doesn’t sound this way anymore….

most of it was stolen from this playlist by an insta mutual:

[hoperays-song]

If Johnny and Nooshy had grown up together.

Stan, talking to Marcus in the garage: Mate, you look exhausted, go take a nap or something.

Marcus, sleep deprived and holding a 6 year old Johnny: No chance, that’s not happening. I have one child that needs me to be holding him at all times and if he is not being held at all times- *slightly loosens his grip*

Johnny: *buries his face in his dads neck* DAD!!

Marcus, patting him on the back comfortingly: -all hell breaks loose. And then I have another child...over there. *points to Nooshy*

8 year old Nooshy: *jumps off the top of a rolling toolbox and lands on the ground with a thud*

Marcus, sighing: Who’s determined to be our local hospital’s patient of the month. Nooshy, honey, are you okay??

Nooshy, cheerfully jumping to her feet: I’m good!! Imma do it again!

Marcus, panicking: Do NoT!!

[chatonyant]

I have (probably) too many thoughts about webtoons I have no read and webtoons I have not finished and their related media.

Yes this is about lookism and solo leveling

No this is nothing about plot

Lookism op popped up on YouTube feed and I just. Got really excited over it despite me not reading it because FUCK. IDK. ITS KINDA COOL. korean webtoon animated in korea! They added bg of traditional korean buildings for the korean characters and others for (I assume) the non korean characters! Idk it was just. Exciting to see this adaptation be eagerly korean after watching say Noblesse be animated (twice!) and have the original location erased. Like please! I don't want this to be the last! I really don't know much about lookism other than super basic plot but I hope the animation does well! Cause I'd love to see other webtoons be animated as well!

And with solo leveling I saw trailers for the game pop up and man. Those trailers were really good. Really well animated and fluid and dynamic in the fighting. Game itself looks pretty interesting but I can't say much cause I'm not really knowledgeable about games,,, but the animation! Was really nice! I'm... not entirely happy about sl being not animated in korea tbh but if the anime can make me feel as hyped as these game trailers did then (hopefully) it'll be fine

Reason why I'm not really happy with it being animated out of Korea is

Well one I don't really like the decision to rename the character and the bg to be Japanese. Two, since SL is something with vast amount of international attention it would've been nice if it was used to push more funding towards korean animation. Despite korea having done tons of animation for anime and American cartoons there's not much in terms of their own animation and series. And if korea goes down the route of manhwa -> animation like how Japan does manga -> anime it would be pretty cool to see!

Would love to see more info on the sl anime tho, tbh I haven't really looked too much into it so I forget when it's expected to be released

Ah 2023? For the trailer? I think? I hope the pacing's good. Same with the animation. Previous webtoon adaptations have been extremely... meh. I'M SALTY ABOUT NOBLESSE OK? OK? TWO CHANCES AND THEY BLEW THEM BOTH PLEAAAAAAASE

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

*giggling and twirling my hair and sighing like I have a crush*

Welchia… she’s so… beautiful…

I wanna run her on a Blaster-infected PC and watch her work…

[katyspersonal]

Do you speak Japanese? Or where do you source your translations? I don’t know the language but I like digging into translation differences!

Oh! I do not speak Japanese, however I am planning to learn the language + I've got grasp on oddly specific symbols and words because of digging in Bloodborne's Japanese script for SO. MANY. TIMES! The biggest help for me with some words and how they are composed was working with the document by Last Protagonist ( x ), and I also developed a habit of paying very close attention at katakana in names of people and/or places because of characters' names retranslation by @saintmicolash ( x ). (saintmicolash knows Japanese though, on the level of effortlessly translating messy text from fanart from Japanese users and all that and he super-helped me with solving localization team's riddles a few times, so if you are unsure of something about the script you can send him an ask.)

Basically, the simplest way I can explain it is that I've had to rummage within the original script so much that I could loosely "work" with Japanese excerpts even as is. I am familiar with people who DO know Japanese though so I double-check by asking them. I am very pleased that Soulsborne fandom learned and this time Japanese script of Elden Ring got into use INSTANTLY (and of course turned out there were characterization errors in English script that caused plague of inaccurate headcanons..... biiiig shock...).

[etlu-yume]

I know it says "in the tags" but.

I was about to say 'hands down it was Gordon's Lemon Gin" but then something reminded me about Bundaberg Spiced Rum.

The Lemon Gin was an utter disappointment. I think I still made it through the bottle (with some help from similarly disappointed helpers). You know how Lemon has like. Two kinds of lemon flavour? Like that sweet lemon flavour you'd expect from pies or lemon and poppyseed muffins, vs that almost bitter and sour citrus you get from very few - but often enough to recognize - sources?

It was very definitely not sweet lemon. I would not pair that in any way, shape, or form with anything sweet.

(Which is a shame! The pink gin? lovely. The tangerine? Not bad! The lemon though I would run for the hills)

The Bundaberg Spiced Rum, however.

I never thought I'd find something that tasted like burning plastic.

They proved me wrong.

It was probably the most foul, worst thing I've tried. I think we even tried mixing it with coke, and that couldn't save it.

tell me in the tags either the worse drink you've ever had or what you do to alcohol to make it palatable

[tumbloggingattheendofitall]

Yeah I know it's stupid to say it again but Russian bots and children buying their rhetoric can actually leave the room and still please fucking vote actually if you have the right

Crazy to say but, when it's a right that we're still working on getting imprisoned people to have, I don't think it's a very Hot Take to say it's useless. Sorry, maybe crazy of me, but I'm one of those people who would've been lobotomized before getting my right to vote in The Olde Days and I think maybe we ought to consider whose agenda we're endorsing by discouraging The Literally Bare Minimum Of Civic Engagement for your average Joe or Jane

[anistarrose]

Please don't tune out when you get to the non-partisan section of your ballot this November. First off, where state Supreme Court justices are elected, Republicans are trying their darndest to elect candidates who will destroy reproductive freedom, gut voting rights, and do everything in their power to give "contested" elections to Republicans. Contrast Wisconsin electing a justice in 2023 who helped rule two partisan gerrymanders unconstitutional, versus North Carolina electing a conservative majority in 2022, who upheld a racist voter ID law and a partisan gerrymander that liberal justices had previously struck down both of.

Second, local judicial offices will make infinitely more of an impact on your community than a divided state or federal legislature will. District and circuit courts, especially, are where criminalization of homelessness and poverty play out, and where electing a progressive judge with a commitment to criminal justice reform can make an immediate difference in people's lives.

It's a premier example of buying people time, and doing profound-short-term good, while we work to eventually change the system. You might not think there will be any such progressive justices running in your district, but you won't know unless you do your research. (More on "research" in a moment.)

The candidates you elect to your non-partisan city council will determine whether those laws criminalizing homelessness get passed, how many blank checks the police get to surveil and oppress, and whether lifesaving harm reduction programs, like needle exchanges and even fentanyl test strips, are legal in your municipality. Your non-partisan school board might need your vote to fend off Moms for Liberty candidates and their ilk, who want to ban every book with a queer person or acknowledgement of racism in it.

Of course, this begs the question — if these candidates are non-partisan, and often hyper-local, then how do I research them? There's so much less information and press about them, so how do I make an informed decision?

I'm not an expert, myself. But I do think/hope I have enough tips to consist of a useful conclusion to this post:

Plan ahead. If you vote in person, figure out what's on your ballot before you show up and get jumpscared by names you don't know. Find out what's on your ballot beforehand, and bring notes with you when you vote. Your city website should have a sample ballot, and if they drop the ball, go to Ballotpedia.

Ballotpedia in general, speaking of which. Candidates often answer Ballotpedia's interviews, and if you're lucky, you'll also get all the dirt on who's donating to their campaign.

Check endorsements. Usually candidates are very vocal about these on their websites. If local/state progressive leaders and a couple unions (not counting police unions lol) are endorsing a candidate, then that's not the end of my personal research process per se, but it usually speeds things up.

Check the back of the ballot. That's where non-partisan races usually bleed over to. This is the other reason why notes are helpful, because they can confirm you're not missing anything.

I've seen some misconceptions in the reblogs, so an addendum to my point about bringing notes on the candidates: I strongly suggest making those notes a physical list that you bring polling place with you. Many states do allow phones at the polling place, but several states explicitly don't — Nevada, Maryland, and Texas all ban phones, and that may not be an exhaustive list. There may also be states that allow individual city clerks to set policies.

You should also pause and think before you take a photo of your ballot, because even some states that don't ban phones still ban ballot photographs. But whether it's a photo, or just having your phone in general — in an environment as high-risk for voter suppression as the current one, you don't want even a little bit of ambiguity about your conduct. Physical notes are your friends.

[giucomix]

They turned Sebastian Debeste into Eustace...... honestly if fans make a fantranslation 10 years before you I think they've got dibs on localizations especially if their take is better. And you need to do less work! fucking Eustace